📖 Psalms 109
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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.
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For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
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For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.
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And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
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Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand.
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Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.
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Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge.
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Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.
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Let his children be vagabounds & beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.
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Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.
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Let there be none to extende mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.
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Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.
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Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.
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But let them alway be before the Lorde, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.
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Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.
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As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.
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As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
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Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.
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Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.
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But thou, O Lorde my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)
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Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.
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I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.
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My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.
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I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.
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Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.
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And they shal know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.
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Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise & be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.
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Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.
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I will giue thankes vnto the Lorde greatly with my mouth & praise him among ye multitude.
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For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.